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Welcome to SUMA-EV !

The world's digital knowledge is becoming increasingly concentrated on the Internet. It's essential that this knowledge is accessible for everyone, something which search engines play a vital part in (see our Guidelines for details).

Therefore we have founded a nonprofit organisation to help secure free access to the knowledge and information embodied in the Internet: "SUMA-EV", the official title has been: "Association for the Promotion of Search Engine Technology and Free Access to Knowledge". In 2009 we changed this title to: "SUMA-EV - Association for Free Access to Knowledge", to include any forms of technology gaining access to knowledge. (The short name SUMA derives from the abbreviation of the German word for "search engine", Suchmaschine).